Combined garment and hat back



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-APPLICATION FILED MAR. l5, 1918. l

Patented May 27, 1919.v

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HERMAN HANKWITZ, 0F OUACHITA, ARKANSAS. Y

COMBINED GARMENT AND HAT RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 27, 1919.

Application filed March 15, 1918. Serial No. 222,629. y

, Be it known that I. l'lnunax l'lxxnwrrz, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Ouai chita, in the county of Dallas and State otArkansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Garmentand Hat. Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined garment and hat rack of the typewhich is in'- tended for connection with a support which may be the backof a wardrobe or the wall of a closet. h

The primary object of the invention is to provide a combined garment and.hat rack wherein a pluralitiY of hook carrylng arms are swinginglymounted between a pair of shelves which not. only serve as braces forthe arms when the arms are in garment` supporting position, but are soconstructed and connected with the bach plate for connection with a.support that a plurality of supplemental hook carrying arms may beslidably -and detachably connected with the rack.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention resides in thenovelcombination and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafterdescribed and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated intheaccompanying drawings, although no restriction is necessarily made tothe precise details of construction therein shown, as changes,alterations, and modifications wit-hin the scope of the claim may beresorted to when de sired.

In the drawings l Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined garmentand hat rack constructed in accordance with the-invention and with thehook carrying arms shown in garment supporting position.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of same.v

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. y

Fig. @L is a detail section on the line 4-4 of Fig. l.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views in the drawings.

Referring now to the drawing in detail the letter A designates acombined garment and hat rack which when constructed in accordance withthe invention includes a back plate 5 which is adapted to bel connectedwith a support in any suitable manner and which may comprise the back ofa wardrobe` or the wall of a closet. The back plate is of rectangularshape and has fixed to the bottom edge thereof a shelf 6 which iscoextensive in length with the back plate and of less width than a shelf7 fixed to the top edge of the back plate The lower shelf G is intendedto be employed as a support for smaller articles, while the upper shelfT may have placed thereon hats and the like.

A pair of tapered hook carrying arms 8 having their larger ends arrangedbetween the shelves G and 7 are pivotallyconnected therewith by means ofdowel pins 9 which extend beyond opposite edges of the arms and adjacenttheir larger ends and are re- -ceived in suitable openings of theshelves 6 and 7. Each of the arms S has formed therein a longitudinallyextending row of spaced openings 10 in which are received the Shanks ofhooks 12.

Through the above described manner of connecting the arm's S with theshelves 6 and 7 it is apparent that these shelves not only serve asbraces for the'arms S when the arms are in lgarment supporting position.but the arms may be folded upon the back plate 5 to lie wholly betweenthe shelves 6 and 7 when not in use.

When the arms 8 are positioned as shown in Fig. Q, the comparativelynarrow shelf 6 permits garments to depen'd in lapped relation from theangularly disposed hooks 12 on the arms.

Arranged between the shelves 6 land 7 at opposite ends of the rack A aresupplemental hook carrying arms 13 each of which comprise a rectangularshaped frame with the top and bottom rails of the frame extending withingrooves 14: which extend inwardly from the ends of the shelves and per-Init the -arms 13 to be slid to a position 4in which they extend beyondtheends of the rack A as shown in Fig. 1 in the drawings.

The hooks 15 with which the arms 13 are provided are mounted to turn inthe to and bottom rails of the arms 13 so that the hooks 15 may beturned to lie in a plane par-l allel with the arms 13 when the arms arenot in useto allow the arms 8 to be folded close against and in parallelrelation to the arms 13.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that my invention resides inthepeculiar con-

